Pakistan Coalition on Media Safety

Month: August 2016

Two DawnNews employees injured in Karachi attack

KARACHI: Two employees of Dawn News channel sustained bullet wounds when their van came under attack in District Malir of Karachi in the late hours of Wednesday. According to police, at least two armed assailants, riding a motorbike, opened fire on the media group’s vehicle near DC office in the Quaidabad neighbourhood. As a result […]

Two DawnNews employees injured in Karachi attack

KARACHI: Two employees of Dawn News channel sustained bullet wounds when their van came under attack in District Malir of Karachi in the late hours of Wednesday. According to police, at least two armed assailants, riding a motorbike, opened fire on the media group’s vehicle near DC office in the Quaidabad neighbourhood. As a result […]

IFEX urges Sindh CM, IGP to pay attention towards probe into journalist Shan Dahar’s killing

KARACHI, August 17 (PPI): International Freedom of (PPI) Expression Exchange (IFEX), the global network of 104 organisations promoting and defending freedom of expression worldwide, in two separate letters, has urged new Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh to pay attention towards ongoing investigation into the killing […]

Pemra bans Dr Shahid Masood show

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has imposed a 45-day ban on the ARY News programme ‘Live with Dr Shahid Masood’. According to a statement issued by Pemra on Thursday, Dr Shahid Masood alleged — in a programme aired on June 22 — that the son of the Sindh High Court chief justice […]

Quetta bleeds again

On the first day of the week, the lawyers of Quetta left their homes early in the morning in a hurry. They not only had to reach the courts but also participate in the election campaign of the upcoming bar elections. They did not know that almost all of them would not return home that […]